KEPAKEMAPA (SEPTEMBER) '99 VOLUME 16, NUMBER 9 c;r-£t!- ~ t,,1- c:.~ ~ ,a.. Tt!- -t. d-/ 0 ~__.L] I ' • • . HiloOne,m~ning "Hi.lo (mcligenous~ple) from all -ho sands," waS'the site-~ an !.;'...,..... __ we;r -she'Wo:tila met impressive weleeming discuss -etlu~anon, culture, ceremony tflst moath sovereignty and thefu.ture. J- • • where 01.Wi $ee sfoeyonpage 10. VOLUME 16, NUMBER 9, KEPAKEMAPA (SEPTEMBER) 1999 FRONT PAGE NEWS: UPDATES OHA survey taps Hawailan community Hawaiians andnon-Hawaiians Hawaiian community. Accord­ Sovereignty: emment run by a monarchy. By Ryan Mielke agree on many of the most con­ ing to researchers at SMS, the Four out of every 10 Hawai 'i Only 21 percent of Hawaiians OR YEARS, legislators and troversial social andpolitical margin of error of the report is residents said they favor or partly would support a monarchy form community leaders have issues confronting Hawai'i. As plus or minus 1.6 percent The favor the idea of Hawaiian sover­ of government Approximately debated where theHawaiian part of the 10-month project low margin of error is due to the eignty. On the other hand, 33.3 80 percent would favor a govern­ community stands on issues coordinated by OHA's Public large sample size of people mea­ percent were opposed to Hawai­ ment run by an elected leader. such as sovereignty, blood Information Office, researchers sured, according to Daniel ian sovereignty andanother 20.5 Other results may explain why quantumf andceded lands. With sought the opinions of approxi­ Naho'opi'i, an SMS researcher percent remain undecided. therewas such low voter turnout therelease Aug. 10 of a major mately 4,000 Hawai'i residents in who worked closely on OHA's Hawaiians and non-Hawaiians at the recent election for dele­ survey commissioned by the order to determine the level of research project were almost identical in their gates to a native Hawaiian con­ Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the information andeducation priori­ Some project findings revealed support andopposition to this vention, where less than 9 per­ community has provided some ties and awareness of the com­ surprises while others provided issue. According to the project, cent of eligible Hawaiians voted. answers. munity. The results will be used new ways of looking at issues. In thereis no clear majority in favor While 61.2 percent of eligible The :findingsof a research pro­ to help OHA's program managers certainkey areas, such as sover­ of or against sovereignty. If there Hawaiians said they would vote ject, conducted by Honolulu­ as well as community leaders eignty and blood quantum, the is to be a sovereign Hawaiian in an election of delegates to a based SMS Research & Market­ focus more acCUl1\telyon the results are mixed. government, however, Hawaiians native Hawaiian convention, 73 ing Services Inc., indicate that needs andpreferences of the are not likely to support a gov- See SURVEY on piq&e 14. I UPDATES U.S. to argue in Rice? Federalhousing bill amended By Paula Durbin in this case, has submitted a request blood quantumset forthin the Hawaiian to do so on Oct. 6 when the court is By Paula Durbin Homes CommissionAct replacedwith the HEN THE State of Hawai 'i scheduled to hear the case. "We FEWdays beforethe United StatesCon­ modern,pre-contact definition. filed its brief as the respon­ have every expectation the request gress went into recess on Aug. 7, S. 225, Inthe currentversion of S. 225, the "find­ dent in Rice vs. Cayetano, it will be granted," said Quinn. ''This a bill extendingthe NativeAmerican ings" sectionhas been modifiedand reference was joined by numerous situation is unique." HousingAssistance and Self-Detennina­ to the 50 percentblood quantumhas been Wamici curiae who either filed Earlier in the summer, Office of tion Act to Hawaiians,was redrafted to omitted.OHA and DIIlIL hadalso proposed or signed onto friend-of-the-court A two other amendmentswhich were not incor­ Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees includetwo changesproposed by the Officeof briefs setting forth a rationale for Chair Rowena Akana and others HawaiianAffairs and the Departmentof porated. One wouldhave expandedthe DIIlIL upholding the law that restricts OHA from OHA traveled to Washington, HawaiianHome Lands: land limitationto includeall ceded lands on elections to voters of Hawaiian D.C., to meet with attorneys at the • They suggestedthe "findings"secti on be which eitherOHA or DIIlIL is authorizedto providelow-income housing. The other would ancestry. Department of Justice and the Office modifiedto emphasizethe relationship Normally, an amicus curiae does betweenthe U.S. and the KingdomofHawai'i have definedthe agencyadministering the of the Solicitor General. According funds as DIIlIL or OHA.Under the current not argue before the court. However, as well as the specialtrust obligationsaccepted to OHA's board attorney Sherry draft, benefitswould continue to be limitedto according to Cynthia Quinn, special by the U.S. in 1898,and to minimizeany infer­ Broder. their presentations convinced encethat the independentpolitical status of DIIlIL lesseesand wouldbe administeredonly assistant to Hawai'i's attomey gener­ Solicitor General Seth Waxman to Hawaiiansflows from the HawaiianHomes byDHHL. al, the United States Office of the file the brief clarifying the position CommissionAct of 1921. The ~ill presumablywill receivefurther con­ Solicitor General, an amicus curiae • They wantedreference to the 50 percent siderationafter Congressreconvenes Sept . 8. • See RICE on piq&e 3 S E P T E M B E R Maile Amorincombines island floralmotifs with Pa'uriders are among the highlightsin the "Hawaiian Soul' is Kecia Akana's solo debut of strikingfabrics in her Maile VISions. Aloha FestivalsFloral Parade this month. Hawaiian contemporaryoriginals. See story on page13. See calendar on page17. See story on pap 19. Kepakemapa (September) '99 I• 'Elua Disagreement on a generally accurate and well­ Editor's update : A few months Rowena Akana balanced story about Mauna Kea ago, Mr. Lemke wrote to Ka Wa i Wll~ RPl!RSON4 TRUSTU•AT•LAROJ I am writing to express my distress in your July issue. We are grateful Ola about the sea wall controversy Hannah Kihalani Springer over the antics of Trustees Macha­ to your publication for succinctly at Aliomanu Kaua 'i. According to summarizing the complex issues his most recent letter, Circuit Court • -c.w• & TwuaTD, HAWMI do and Apoliona. Machado seems Haunani Apoliona to be alienating herself from grass­ involved. Judge Clifford Nakea has reversed I would like to correct and clari­ the Planning Commission . "If his T p-ru •AT• LAlloa roots Hawaiian communities as an fy two aspects of the article, if I decision stands, it will befar A. Frenciliy DeSoto ironic result of trying to position herself "for the people." Her mes­ may . First,the title and text imply reaching, rendering the state-w ide sages posted in your forum are the UH Board of Regents has Planning Commission powerless," filled with nonsensical backbiting placed a long -term moratorium on wrote Mr. Lemke. "Why have a and nary a viable solution. Mauna Kea development; such is Planning Commission with no It's apparent to all that you are not the case. The regents did teeth? Purely a waste of time and willing to forsake a large number decide at their June 18 meeting money." of Hawaiians to further your per­ that no new development would be sonal polarization with the other approved until the management the new BloodfllUIDlum trustees on the board. Political structure proposed in naivete aside, you attack an organi­ Master Plan has been established. In the Iulai Ka Wai Ola I found we are unaware of any zation of Hawaiian parents and Second, very disturbing articles on the children, who don't give one guava major observatory where the host "blood quantum." about politics . I have even met organization charges significant I was struck that the Hou Hawai­ rent for use of the site. some of the trustees and they per­ monetary ians have asked the Supreme Court In all of the cases with which we A D M I N I S Tl: . A T I O N form their jobs without compensa­ to limit qualification for voting to are familiar , the guest observato­ of 50 percent blood RandalLpgata tion! Tell us again how they com­ Hawaiians pare to bureaucrats such as your­ ries contribute to the support and quantum as they do not feel those ADM.....fuTOR development of the local astrono­ selves. Before you take your sick­ of less quantum should benefit my program, primarily through le to such a young tree as immer­ from the public land trust. 1\vo sharing the use of the telescope sion education, not even having the interviews of Hawaiian high school and helping to pay common obser­ facts straight, remember another juriiors again confirmed the poi ­ vatory expenses . Your readers lesson from nature : It makes no soned attitudes and saddened me may be interested to know OHA sense for the parasite to kill the deeply. Trustees Hannah Springer and host. My grandchildren are Too many of our people buy into Mililani Trask, are on the 23- immersion educated. If you are the greed established by foreigners member Mauna Kea Advisory going to attack the education in who set up the blood quantum a Committee . long time ago . Our beloved Queen Hawaiian language, what are your be pleased to give We would Lili'uokalani must be reeling in her motives? We, your hosts, who put your staff a tour of our facilities in you there in your pos ition of power place of rest, seeing her own people Manoa, on Mauna Kea or on turning against one another. She grow weary of how you wield it. Haleakala. M. Malu loved all her people and did not Donna Robert A.